Hey rethugs...how's that "Irish Miracle" working out for ya?

[Hugabear]

I used to hear folks like Neil Boortz and other right-wingers going on and on about the so-called "Irish miracle" as some sort of vindication that lower taxes and deregulation was a good thing. I believe Boortz even used Ireland as an example of his "Fair Tax" could revitalize the economy. Don't ask me exactly how, I just remember how they used to always point to the "Irish Miracle".

So...how's that "Irish Miracle" working out now?

[DFab420]

1. Damn republicans

Is nothing sacred! Leave my people out of this you GOPBasterds!!

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Wasn't Bush credited with some kind of education miracle in the 2000 campaign?

Maybe pukes have different dictionaries in which miracle = debacle or some such thing.

[DFab420]

3. Probably using dictionaries written in Texas.. snap! eom

[Bozita]

4. The miracle was that the claims of reducing dropouts in Houston were never checked by the MSM

Reducing the dropouts was really easy; they simply stopped counting them.

One particularily tough high school in Houston cut its dropouts to zero.

But nobody in the MSM checked until the election was long over.

[malaise]

5. We have them here too

and they're tres silent these days.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Repub economics has never worked anywhere

Democrats should emphasize this in campigns.

[Peregrine Took]

7. I'm a product of a "mixed" marriage. My dad - an IRA man from the Republic

of Ireland and my mom was from Northern Ireland.

I wonder how my relatives in the North feel now about what is happening down below?

[stray cat]

8. How about those who complain they live in the US instead of Ireland because of government safety net

[Recursion]

9. It was a pretty darn good two decades

It's not clear that this crash is going to take them back down to the pre-90's poverty, so in that sense it would have "done its job".

[applegrove]

10. While they were gloating over the Irish miracle they were poopooing Germany.

Whose your daddy now neocon?

[RamboLiberal]

11. Rachel, KO, Lawrence or Ed

Ought to put together a clip of them all praising the "Irish Miracle".

[Kingofalldems]

12. K and R. Republicans will not like this one.

[AngryAmish]

13. Don't be so gleeful in your pissing on the Irish

Compare Ireland 20 years ago to Ireland today. 20 years ago it was a wreck. Third world infrastructure. People heating their homes with peat moss. My grandmother finally got an indoor toilet in the 70s. People are much richer now, even with the crash. Also a generation of children did not have to emigrate in order to make a living. Now the average person lives so much better, better healthcare, better education, nicer cars. They can take vacations. Electronics. (Not too many TVs when I was a kid in the 70s). All the sort of things a first world country has. Yet you condemn them for it.

The inability to make a living is why I exist. Back in the 50s my parents had to come here in order to make a living. My dad owned a small trucking business (a truck). He had plenty of business but people could not afford to pay him. So he left. No job, not knowing too many people. Found a job as a mechanic which made him richer than anyone who stayed. My mom was younger and left also.

I do not know which Irish person did you wring, but blind hatred and bigotry is not the sort of thing we value around here.